Jeff Bridges tells Rob Lowe how he survived a weather disaster

When a wildfire in Southern California threatened the home of Jeff Bridges and his wife Susan, they fled but found themselves in an even worse situation.

The old man Actor explained in Thursday's episode of SiriusXM's Literally! With Rob Lowethat while he was sleeping in the house they had moved into in Montecito, he heard an explosion that turned out to be a once-in-1,500-year weather event.

“I was sleeping and I hear a bang! A huge explosion. I look out the window and the sky is all red,” Bridges said of the 2018 California landslide. “And then boom! I think we're being bombed or something. I didn't know what was going on. Then I heard something that sounded like a train. And then boom, it hits our house.”

Lowe and Bridges have been neighbors for about 30 years and they told what had happened.

“We had a terrible mudslide/flash flood here. They say it was a once-in-1,500-year weather event,” Lowe said, “where a rain cell showed up in just the right place and dumped just the right amount of rain… 23 people lost their lives. This was a real event, and you were right there in the middle of it.”

Bridges estimated that four feet of mud and rocks had washed into their home. He and his wife went to the highest room in the house, the kitchen, and climbed onto the kitchen island. There was no electricity or cell reception there.

Eventually they heard the helicopters, but since their house was isolated “like a forest,” Bridges knew he had to get rescuers' attention in an open spot in the backyard, so he asked for a bedsheet on which he could write “SOS.”

“SOS written on the sheet in the mud, and they saw that and sent a couple of people over to help us,” said Bridges, who told local media from his rescue helicopter. “Sue said, 'I'm taking my dog,' and there was a shot of Sue in this pink coat with her little Yorkie getting into the helicopter.”

Lowe had a different experience that evening.

“This is crazy,” Lowe said. “My son was here. I was out of town, so I got the calls. My son was in the house, though, and we were lucky. We were in an area where it didn't affect us at all, but … you guys were lucky to be alive.”

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Bridges said this was her last night in the residence. According to PEOPLE, he sold the renovated property to Oprah Winfrey.

New episodes of SiriusXM's “Literally!” with Rob Lowe are available every Thursday on the SiriusXM app and wherever podcasts are available.